In an instant, many things flashed through Nangong Yue's mind, and she felt a little bit embarrassed.
Xiao Yi has clear grievances and grievances. Although the Gu family had provided military horses for Qian Nanliang, as long as they kept their own place, Xiao Yi would not kill them all. But they committed suicide by themselves, and even brought troubles to the whole family. It is only pity for those young children …
Da da da…
Amidst the regular sound of wheels, the carriage quickly passed by the door of Gu Na's house.
With a flash of emotion, Nangong Yue was quickly attracted by the lively street outside.
As the flow of people on the street increased, the speed of the carriage became slower and slower.
Seeing this, Nangong Yue got out of the carriage with Xiao Yi, and walked towards the north city gate, with the two maids following behind the masters.
The street they are on leads directly to the North City Gate. Because there is a market today, not only the people in the city, but even several nearby towns and villages also come here to go to the market. Everywhere you look, there are bustling crowds.
This is the first time for Nangong Yue to come to the market in Nanliang. The vegetables, fish, fruit snacks, decorations, clothes and headscarves sold in the market are very different from Dayu King Capital and Southern Xinjiang. It feels strange and fresh, but also has a hint of familiarity. The so-called people's livelihood is actually the basic necessities of life.
The two of them walked aimlessly. When they saw fresh food and snacks, they tasted them; With a smile on his face, he obviously enjoys it.
There were bursts of yelling from time to time, even if they couldn't understand the language, Nangong Yue could guess that they were yelling for their own products. Suddenly, a flash of bright red in front of them attracted Nangong Yue's attention, and she walked around Raising his eyebrows with interest, he happily pulled up Xiao Yi's sleeves and said, "Ah Yi, look quickly, it's a sugar painting!"
Nangong Yue may not like sugar paintings very much, but when she saw the sugar paintings of Zhongyuan in Nanliang, she suddenly felt a sense of joy of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land".
Seeing her happy, Xiao Yi held her hand directly, shook her hand and said, "Come on, let's go buy sugar paintings."
The two walked quickly towards the sugar painting booth. The closer they got to that direction, the more people there were. A group of children ranging from four to nine years old were salivating around the sugar painting booth. Their bright eyes looked like Shining like gems.
There are many kinds of sugar paintings inserted on bamboo sticks. The stall owner used amber syrup to draw vivid and interesting patterns, such as the Chinese zodiac, birds and beasts, melons, fruits and flowers... the translucent sugar paintings are in the sun. Bright in color with an alluring sheen.
Seeing that the stall owner drew a butterfly with complicated patterns in one go, Nangong Yue could almost hear the sound of those children swallowing their saliva, and couldn't help laughing. Also, there are a few children who don't like sugar.
Seeing that Nangong Yue was watching with relish, Xiao Yi had a thought, walked to the side of the stall owner and said something to him in Nanliang's words, and threw another piece of silver to him.
Nangong Yue originally thought that he was going to buy sugar paintings for herself, but the next moment she saw the skinny middle-aged stall owner holding up the broken silver and happily moved away. Xiao Yi sat down behind the booth and scooped up some thick sugar juice with a small spoon.
Obviously, he wanted to paint the sugar painting himself.
Those children were also very surprised, chatting in a hurry, all of them were very excited, and wanted to see what this beautiful big brother could draw.
After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Yi took a small spoon and quickly cast it back and forth on the stone slab of the booth. As the strands of sugar drifted, the outline of an eagle was quickly outlined, lifelike, and then the feathers in the details, His movements slowed down a little...
The children quickly saw that it was an eagle, with burning eyes and exclamations of admiration from time to time.
After marking the last stroke, Xiao Yi looked at Nangong Yue triumphantly, and said with a smile: "Madam, do you want to buy sugar paintings?"
Nangong Yue looked around for half a circle, then cooperatively pointed to the booth selling flower strings and said, "Come here, let's have a flower."
Xiao Yi smiled confidently, and drew several sugar flowers on the slate, rose, lily of the valley, jasmine... After a while, Nangong Yue grabbed a lot of sugar flowers in her hands, those sugar paintings were so crystal clear in the sun It was so clear that those little girls couldn't bear to look away.
At this time, a five or six-year-old girl in pink took a step towards Xiao Yi and asked timidly, "Big brother, can you draw cats?"
The little girl spoke the simplest Nanliang dialect, so Nangong Yue understood it.
Xiao Yi glanced at the little girl, then scooped up a spoonful of sugar juice with a small spoon, and painted with sugar again... After painting a few times, he has become quite proficient, and he can draw a curled up bird in just three or two strokes. A fat cat sleeping in a ball, with a few tabby spots on its round body, it seems to be alive.
It's Xiaoju. Nangong Yue recognized her cat immediately, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. After going out for so long, she really missed the soft bodies of her cats Xiaobai and Xiaoju.
After Xiao Yi finished drawing the cat, he skillfully scooped up the sugar-painted cat with a spatula, stuck the bamboo sticks on it, then turned to the little girl, and asked in Nanliang dialect, "Does it look like it?"
The little girl's eyes sparkled, staring at the sugar cat as if possessed.
Xiao Yi curled his lips into a smile, his beautiful face looked more radiant under the sun, but Xiao Yiru Nangong Yue saw a hint of cunning in his smile, and sure enough, he opened his mouth the next moment, "ah Woo" one bite, and only half of the sugar painting cat is left...
The audience was silent for a moment, and the children were all dumbfounded, especially the little girl in pink stared at the headless sugar painting cat, her mouth was deflated, her black-rimmed eyes were wet, as if she was about to cry at any moment .
This guy's bad taste strikes again. Nangong Yue held her forehead speechlessly, and she was already worried about the daughter in her belly. With a careless father like Xiao Yi, her daughter's future is really not optimistic...
"Little sister, don't be sad, how about giving this to you?" Nangong Yue picked up a sugar painting from the booth, handed it to the little girl in pink, and said in a jerky Nanliang language.
Of course the other children around understood it too, and sighed enviously one after another.
The little girl in pink looked at Nangong Yue tremblingly, but she didn't take it. Seeing this, Nangong Yue simply handed the sugar painting to her.
The little girl stared at the candy painting in her hand contentedly. She was really reluctant to eat it, so she leaned over and licked it, narrowed her eyes with a satisfied smile, and handed it to another little girl in Cuiyi on her right, who also licked it carefully. He licked and smiled.
Looking at these children, Nangong Yue smiled and said in a jerky Nanliang language: "You all line up, this brother and I will treat you to sugar paintings."
It's just a treat to eat some sugar paintings, Xiao Yi naturally followed Nangong Yue.
Thinking of the sweet sugar painting, the children were overjoyed and looked at Nangong Yue in disbelief, almost jumping up with joy.
A boy with a runny nose couldn't help asking sarcasticly, "Sister, is it true?"
In fact, compared to this child, the owner of the candy painting stall wanted to know the answer to this question more urgently, his cloudy eyes almost turned into copper coins, so by calculation, he earned double the money today.
The children asked questions, and a long winding queue was quickly lined up, and their expectant eyes were cast on Tang Hua.
These children ask for nothing more than sugar paintings.
The corners of Nangong Yue's mouth curled slightly, and she said in Nanliang again: "Have you heard the story of Kong Rong letting pears?"
The children blinked suspiciously, apparently clueless.
Telling the story was too difficult, completely beyond the Nanliang language of the three-legged cat that Nangong Yue had mastered, so she looked at Xiao Yi with a smile.
Xiao Yi sighed silently in his heart, he hadn't told the story to his daughter-in-law yet, but he told the story to a group of other children first.
He succinctly told the story of Kong Rong letting pears in a few words. Those children listened thoughtfully, and immediately changed positions under the leadership of several older children. This time, the one standing at the front was The little "slug", the rest of the children lined up in a ladder of ages.
When Kong Rong gave up pears, he made the older children humble the younger ones.
Nangong Yue smiled slightly, and gave the children an encouraging look. Of course, the gifts were not those painted by Xiao Yi, but they were allowed to pick out their favorite tastes at the booth, and if they were not enough, let the boss continue to paint.
The children ran away excitedly after taking the sugar painting, and some of them even said that they wanted to take it back for their younger brothers and sisters to eat.
Looking at the happy backs of these children, Nangong Yue turned her head to look at Xiao Yi thoughtfully, and suggested, "Ah Yi, shall we open a school in Nanliang?"
Her obsidian-like eyes were shining brightly.
To win the hearts of the people, we can start from the young children, teach Dayu characters, customs, etc., and subtly influence the children. When those children grow up, they will only know Dayu is good, and they will not remember Nanliang... In the next generation, these Nanliang people will become Dayu people in this way.
Xiao Yi looked at Nangong Yue with a smile, if it wasn't for the street, he really wanted to kiss Nangong Yue hard.
His Ah Yue is really smart!
Xiao Yi had no choice but to raise his hand, a slender index finger stroked the hair on the side of Nangong Yue's cheek to the back of his ear, and said: "Actually, Xiaobai also thought of this matter, we plan to start with Wuli He opened several schools in the countryside near Chengcheng, and enrolled children for free," he said, with a sly smile on his lips, "Two meals a day."
Of course, Xiao Yi did not raise these Nanliang children out of good intentions, but whether it is Dayu or Nanliang, ordinary children have to help with housework at a young age. labor. But it's different if you take care of the two meals. The so-called "half a child, eat to death", even if it's for eating and drinking, those Nanliang people will send their children to school.
At that time, as long as it is stipulated that children cannot complete their studies, they must drop out of school, and the children will naturally study hard.
Naturally, this school does not teach the Four Books and Five Classics. Guan Yubai specially compiled a "Book of Thousand Words", which compiles together the words used to educate the people in various books since ancient times, such as "In the beginning of man, nature is evil. ", so it is necessary to "transform nature into hypocrisy" through acquired etiquette education; for example, "The minister serves the emperor, the son serves the father, and the wife serves the husband. If the three obey, the world will rule, and the three will lead to chaos. This is the common way of the world. Also"; another example is the Confucian concept of loyalty and filial piety, but the object of this "loyalty" is of course the Zhennan Palace, and so on.
Thinking about it, Xiao Yi stroked his chin triumphantly, and thought: Xiaobai looks innocent, but his stomach is really black! Haha, though, he loves it!
While talking, Xiao Yi was attracted by a stall in front of him, pointed to the front and said, "Ah Yue, I remember that the glutinous rice dumpling with shredded coconut and black sesame filling tastes good, let's buy it and give it to Xiaobai."
Xiao Yi smiled wickedly, Nangong Yue couldn't help but cast a sideways glance, and they went to the dim sum stall together.
While talking, the two continued to walk forward, talking and laughing loudly.
On this day, they didn't return to the palace with a full load until the market dispersed around noon.
When Nangong Yue was pregnant for three months and everything in Nanliang had settled down, Xiao Yi planned to take her back to Luoyue City.
So, Nangong Yue prepared all kinds of gifts with great interest. Although she had prepared several large carriages sporadically these days, she still felt that something was missing, and she racked her brains every day to think about what else to buy. Take it back.
Baihui and Que'er were even more busy. They had to arrange all the chores for the return journey, and they had to decorate the new carriage that Shi Ziye had just customized for Shi Zifei. Get comfortable.
After several days of busy work, things were finally sorted out.
In addition to the slaves who came from Nanjiang to follow back to the Zhennan Palace, there were a few more Nanliang palace ladies on the way back to wait on the road. Of course, those who can be taken away all have their own strengths. For example, the sweet and sour snacks made by a court lady are very suitable for Nangong Yue's appetite; ... Baihui took Nangong Yue with her after asking about it.
When it was time to set off, it was dawn, and more than a dozen carriages and accompanying servants and soldiers were already waiting at the gate of the palace.
Guan Yubai also got up early in the morning, and personally came to the gate of the palace to see Xiao Yi and Nangong Yue off.
The morning breeze blew on Guan Yubai's body, making the corners of his robe flutter, making him look thin and thin.
"Cough cough."
Guan Yubai coughed a few times, making Xiao Yi and Xiao Si frown slightly.
"I'm fine." Guan Yubai hurriedly said, "It's just that the summer flowers are in full bloom recently, and the fragrance of the flowers is a bit tantalizing." Just now he was blown by the pollen and his throat was a little itchy, so he coughed a few times.
Xiaosi stared at him every day, if he didn't fall asleep at Haishi, Xiaosi's face would be clouded.
"Xiao Bai," Xiao Yi patted Guan Yubai's shoulder solemnly, and asked, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who's going to die and die?"
Nangong Yue shook her head for Guan Yubai.
Xiao Yi blinked obsequiously at Nangong Yue, as if to say, I really know that I am not Ah Yue!
Then, he said again: "There is a saying: if you are close to vermilion, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black. We have known each other for so long, why haven't you learned a little from me?"
Hearing this, the corner of Xiao Si's mouth twitched, and he really wanted to ask Xiao Yi, do you think you are "Zhu" or "Mo".
Of course Guan Yubai understood that Xiao Yi was trying to persuade him not to work too hard, a smile flashed in his eyes, and he said, "I know."
Xiao Yi smiled even brighter, and his beautiful face was filled with a dazzling look.
"Xiaobai, the winter in Nanliang is cold and cold, which is not good for your health. You can go back to Luoyue City after autumn." Xiao Yi continued like an old lady, "Anyway, the situation in Nanliang is set, and there is still a quiet place to go." The boys from the Riding Camp and the New Talent Camp are available for dispatch. You can order them to do whatever you want, anyway, if you can order them around, that is their luck!" Xiao Yi said eloquently.
Que'er at the side almost sympathized with the "those boys" Xiao Yi said. Although what Shizi said seems to be correct, they can learn a little superficially from An Yihou, which is enough for them to benefit endlessly.
Xiao Si stared at Xiao Yi, his eyes seemed to say, why are there so many chirping? Hurry up and leave, so that the young master won't be here to accompany you to blow the air!
Xiao Yi was not a dawdler either, after explaining the matter roughly, he naturally abandoned the horse and got into the carriage with Nangong Yue.
Their chariots and horses drove out of the palace gate all the way, and galloped along the wide street. Guan Yubai stood on the spot and watched them go. There was no sadness, no reluctance, no parting feelings on his face...
Parting is for reunion.
They are moving towards their goal step by step, getting closer...
The corners of Guan Yu's white lips curled slightly, outlining a heartfelt smile.
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